The media is creating racial resentment. Where will this lead us?
Our great nation has made many mistakes over its history. Slavery was one of those mistakes. The institution of slavery in the early United States was a great crime committed against many thousands of people.
It is okay to regret our ancestors allowed this crime to occur. It is indisputable that slavery was an evil institution wherever and whenever it was practiced. American slavery perpetuated the theft of African people from their homelands and intentionally separated African families. Without naming every offense, it should suffice to say that early American slave owners willfully subjected their slaves to horrible conditions and incredible abuses.
Fortunately, it is unlikely the institution of slavery will ever again be officially recognized on the American continent. As an aside, it may ease your conscience to remember the Northern states started to free the slaves within their borders well before our current constitution was written.
Just as we regret slavery, we can regret many other things throughout our country's history. We can regret the United States's delayed entry into World War 2 - or we can regret the US even entered into the first World War. We can regret the formation of laws and regulations which destroy economic mobility, or the laws which enabled social segregation.
Regret is an emotion which helps us strive to be better. We remember bad decisions which we've made in our past, and these decisions are quickly brought to the forefront of our minds when faced with similar situations.
It seems as if the goal of American media is to drive Americans not just to regret slavery, but resent that African slaves were ever brought to the Americas. There is an endless discussion of race. More specifically, if less accurately, mainstream and progressive media outlets are desperately trying to sell the idea one race's entire history was spent subjugating others. We are meant to believe every modern problem and inconvenience experienced by black or brown Americans is a result of this subjugation. We are told that any solution must first begin by white Americans pleading guilty to a crime which occurred well before their birth, and end with the same white Americans being constrained from enjoying societal opportunities as a result of their race.
How will this lead to anything other than incredible feelings of resentment among white Americans? If white Americans, collectively, resent that Africans were brought to the United States as slaves, where will that lead us as a nation?
Resentment is not regret. Resentment inevitably leads to anger, to contention, and to violence. It drives husbands to divorce their wives and can bring about murder between former friends.
The media and progressive activists are driving us down a path towards massive and awful violence. If we are not careful, we can soon find ourselves in a war which will only end in the extermination of one race or the other. There is no benefit, no happiness, nor anything desirable which will be found along the way. Only death, destruction, and unimaginable sorrow.